Author: medweb
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MSTP Student’s Research Highlighted by Trip to Asia, Publication
Medical Scientist Training Program student Jessica Queen turned a trip to Asia into a paper that appeared on the August cover of Infection and Immunity. For Queen, the opportunity to travel to a region of the world where cholera is endemic helped put into perspective the reasons she works so hard in the lab.
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Labarthe Receives American Heart Association’s Gold Heart Award
Darwin Labarthe, MD, PhD, MPH, professor in preventive medicine, was bestowed the American Heart Association 2012 Gold Heart Award, the highest honor the association gives in recognition of continued, distinguished service.
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New Students Welcomed with Introduction to the Profession Week
Introduction to the Profession week, held August 10 through August 15, is meant to familiarize the new class of medical students with the practical aspects of Feinberg and to the themes of professionalism and professional identity they will encounter throughout their medical education and career as physicians.
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Superager Brains Look, Act Decades Younger
A new Northwestern Medicine study takes a look at the brains of an elite group of people age 80 and older whose memories are as sharp as people 20 to 30 years younger than them.
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MPH Student Field Experiences in Chicago
This summer, Edson Carias, a first-year MD/MPH student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, helped the Howard Brown Health Center develop a social marketing campaign for sexually transmitted infection prevention
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Project Could Result in First Hand Transplant in Illinois, Protocol to Guide Others
A new research project being conducted by a collaborative team from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is working to determine who, if anyone, should receive a hand transplant.
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Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is not only the oldest physical therapy school in the nation, it also continues to rank among its best, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Brain Changes After a Stuffed Nose Protect the Sense of Smell
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that after the human nose is experimentally blocked for one week, brain activity rapidly changes in olfactory brain regions. This change suggests the brain is compensating for the interruption of this vital sense. The brain activity returns to a normal pattern shortly after free breathing has been restored.
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Feinberg Researcher Discovers That Thinner Diabetics Face Higher Death Rate
American adults of a normal weight with new-onset diabetes die at a higher rate than overweight/obese adults with the same disease, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Neil Kelleher Awarded W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for Study of Proteins
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary E. Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Proteomics Center of Excellence at Northwestern University, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
